Canine tobacco addiction
My dog manages to get out his confined area from time to time when I am away from the house. That isn't surprising since he's my killer wolf attack dog. The thing that does concern me is that when I've been getting home the past couple of days, I've noticed a chewed up cigarette on the ground each time. I don't smoke, and I'm pretty sure nobody else in my house does either. So where is he getting these cigarettes from?! Furthermore, where is he stashing them so that he can consume them one at a time when I'm gone? I guess I'll just have to have a talk with him about the effects of tobacco before Phillip-Morris enslaves him too..
posted by Dev @ 4:16 PM
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Tobacco has been variously hailed as a gift from the gods, a miraculous cure-all for life's physical ills, a solace to the lonely soldier or sailor, a filthy habit, a corrupting addiction, and the greatest disease-producing product known to man. This diversity of opinion has continued unchanged for centuries and has appeared until very recently to be little affected by research results from more than 900,000 papers thus far published on the topic. It is common knowledge that cigarette smoking is the single major cause of cancer and cardiovascular disease in the United States, contributing to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year, yet one-fourth to one-third of American adults continue to smoke.
The dental profession has been repeatedly warned against the use of tobacco, perhaps accounting for the very low proportion of dentists (6-8%) currently considered to be regular users. More than 130 years ago Brodie was telling dental surgeons that "the use of tobacco in any ordinary way, by the dentist, is a practice which we consider reprehensible in point of propriety and etiquette. It is in all cases offensive and disgusting." He emphasized that patients should not be forced to tolerate a dentist's "smoker's breath" or spitting. "How a dentist of any refinement can persist in such an infliction upon his patients is more than we can comprehend." Today, of course, we are more concerned about the health effects and addiction potential of tobacco use by out patients, but our concern is no less ardent.
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